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9:45-11:00
Gay
Talese: A New Journalist's Suggestions for Daily Journalists
"...This dapper man took the podium and started to talk about
his passion for his early years at The New York Times. He was
22 years old then. He's 69 now, and I wondered what he could teach
today's daily scribblers. Boy, was I wrong." -- Stephanie
Harvin
"Attention to detail,
he said, is what the art of narrative non-fiction is all about.
But to get to the detail, he said, non-fiction writers must have
an innate curiosity." -- Victor Greto
"With rapt attention,
the audience learned from Gay how his immigrant family molded
his prism of journalism... Gay was all along driven by the desire
to write about people who had been ignored but whose lives represented
that of an average American." -- Bode
Opeseitan
David
Fanning: The Narrator's Voice: Finding the Story in TV Documentary
"Every one of those stories begins as a journey, a search,
Fanning says. The tools at your disposal are not the compass or
the map; interviews, recreations, careful casting of strong characters,
and a keen director’s eye lead you to finally building a
narrative arc." -- Ellen Sung
Mark
Kramer: Reporting Differently: How to Come Back with a Notebook
Full of Narrative
"Mark Kramer has a warning for us:
A Kramer lecture is like a duck taking off from water. But
even before he's airborne we're getting a vivid sense of what
narrative takes. And where this bird is headed." -- Bill
Mitchell
Jill Lepore: Writing
for History: Historical Writing and the Revival of Narrative
Nan
Talese and Stewart O'Nan: How to Get the Most from your Editor;
How to Get the Most from Your Writer: Frank Talk about Editing,
Publicity, Deadlines, Style and Perfection
"I appreciated the interplay from both the writer (Stewart)
that I've been and the editor (Nan) that I am now -- and could
understand both points of view -- the frustrations of the writer
looking for a bigger advertising budget for his latest book, as
well as the respected editor who knows her limits with the marketing
staff." -- Gail
Gilliland
11:15-12:30
Bruce DeSilva: Endings:
The Second Most Important Thing
Rick
Bragg: Writing in Color
"I wanted to know how he gets his story ideas, how he
approaches interviews, organizes his piece, thinks and rethinks
his leads. He didn’t tell us that. He didn’t tell us
the secret of narrative journalism. Or did he..." -- Marc
Kaufman
"if anyone can make
you miss writing especially so, it’s Rick Bragg speaking
in his slow Southern drawl about how to put color into writing.
He reminded me of those things that made me fall in love with
the job of finding the story -- where it begins, where it leads
you, how it ends." -- Amber Eden
Morgan Entrekin: The
Editorial Partnership: Peeling Down to the Story
Jack
Hart: How to Convince
Your Editor to Accept Narrative
"I
came away with a 10-step plan for winning a Pulitzer Prize for
narrative journalism." -- Steve
Crowe
2:00-3:15
Jon
Franklin: Beginning, Middle and End: The Shape and Psychology
of Story
"'I
hope this is good,' I thought to myself. But
Franklin got me to sit up right away as he talked about things
like 'character'and 'plot' -- words I'd associated with novels
and short fiction, not journalism." -- Dan
Mathers
Emily
Hiestand: Henry James on Deadline: Big Ideas Hidden (Playfully)
"Hiestand is a poet and a visual artist as well as a magical
essayist. A lot of what she talked about can be summarized as
thinking like an artist while writing about true things"
-- Madeline
Bodin
Adam Hochschild: My First Great
Lesson in Narrative Journalism: 6 AM, February 10, 1965
"In the back of
my mind, I wondered if it was too masterful. Were the stories
in it too good to be true? Did it really hold up to the rigorous
standards of accuracy we use as journalists?" -- Ellen
Sung
Nan Talese and Morgan Entrekin:
The Sorts of Books We Work On and How to Work on Them With Us
3:30-4:45
Tom
French: Serial Narratives: The Mechanics of Unfolding
"The three most beautiful words in English, French said,
are not 'I love you' but 'to be continued.'" -- Mike
Lenahan
Ilan Stavans: The Narrative
Writer as Intellectual Traveler
Stewart O'Nan: Not Stopping: Finding Ways to Continue with
Creative Work While Still Engaged in the Busy World
Stan Grossfeld and Steve Holmes: Life Out of the Spotlight:
Finding the News in Ordinary Lives
Jacqui Banaszynski and Jim
Collins: Editing Narrative for Newspapers and Magazines
"The
near-perfect approach to eliminate all hostilities, Jacqui advised,
is for both parties to realize that neither the editor nor the
reporter is perfect." --
Bode Opeseitan
5:00-6:15
Ira
Glass: Show Biz Values in Journalism
"I wish you could have been there. The host and producer
of public radio's program 'This American Life' had just told a
roomful of serious journalists that they, too often, leave the
joy out of their stories; that most newspapers document a world
that is meaner than it really is." -- Stephanie
Harvin
8:00-9:00: CAFE SESSION
Lee Gutkind, Joe Mackall
and Dan Lehman: Literary Magazines: What We Look For in Narrative
Journalism
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